April 14, 2008...7:25 am
final thought
I am sorry you spent so much time on second life, it seems to me to be easy to do…chasing something that seems fun but is pointless. I have done that more than once.
It brings me back to the idea that second life is a metaphore for our existance though. You are both the observer and the conscience of a nearly pretend being of your own design. The thing that’s different is the level of conscious choice you excercise to behave a certain way. You actively choose to be “good” or ‘bad”…whatever that means to you.
It’s kind of like therapy puppets…less about subconscious tendancies and more about letting our suppressed selves out. It’s hard to type that because what that means is that what we suppress is really so basal and animalistic, we really aren’t any different than any other animal. Except, that we are able to take our instincts and shape them into both beauty and deformity. All of it obsessing with form…whether it’s pretending to mean when we are usually nice, humliating ourselves because we see ourselves as unworthy, adorning ourselves to get any attention we can, harming ourselves and others because of the pain we feel inside. In a “safe” environment…that is no actual harm is done…kinda. In the end Simms are unfulfilling because, ultimately, it’s not real. All of it is pretend.
I wonder how much life is like that? We remain unfulfilled because we are pretending to be what we are not…or more literally, less than we are. However difficult it gets, never ever forget that each and every person regardless of their journey is a being of light…fundamentally the force of creation that shapes all life. We are made of nothing but the most miraculous inventions of nature. Each of us is endowed with the tools and gifts that we need…both for giving and receiving…regardless of what we believe is true. Each human being is a miracle of creation…and we are gifts for one another.
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